Former president of Fujitsu files injunction to take back job

The former president of Fujitsu Kuniaki Nozoe has filed a court injunction accusing the company of bad corporate governancePA

The former president of Fujitsu, Kuniaki Nozoe, has filed a court injunction accusing the company of bad corporate governance in an attempt to take his job back.

The move opens another chapter in the bizarre battle between the company and its former boss, who was forced from his job last September in a mysterious boardroom coup. The row has involved accusations of organised crime links, fake hospital visits and suggestions that Mr Nozoe might have been threatened with a yakuza “hit”.

The injunction is similar to the one that was filed and subsequently withdrawn by Mr Nozoe earlier this year.

Both sides have been unusually public in their condemnation of one another, and the bid to reverse his resignation is unprecedented in Japan. The two…